In Tanzania, albino people are considered victims of evil or magical beliefs — so, they are not registered at birth and they do not die — rather, they ‘vanish’.

Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, vertebrate skeletons are objects of art, while they carry within them the traces of several billion years of evolution.  Patrick Gries captures the awe and beauty of nature in his photographs of more than 250 of the smallest to the largest vertebrate.